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Ancestral Living

The habitat the body was built for, and how much of it can be rebuilt inside a modern life: sleep, sun, movement, real work, warm food, and living in the kitchen instead of the garret.

Reading Salisbury, Part 3: Less in the Garret, More in the Kitchen

Third in a series working slowly through “The Relation of Alimentation and Disease” by James H. Salisbury, M.D. (1888). Chapters I and II: worry, willpower, a breathing exercise with a nonsense explanation, and why he thought athletes die young. The book is free; the link is at the bottom.

Hope Is My Number One Drug

Thoreau said the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. He was right. Nearly six decades in, one thing has outlasted every mistake: hope, the only drug that lends from the future instead of borrowing against it. How it gets lost, how it gets found, and why things get better.

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